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245: Episode 245 - ‘The Satanic Verses’: Fatwas & Faux Pas

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True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

If the contents of a 546-page book can get one man murdered, two more seriously injured and its author forced into hiding for nine years, you can be confident of its subject: religion. But despite its reputation, ‘The Satanic Verses’ isn’t a page-by-page deconstruction of Islam. It’s a work of fiction; one that prompted the leader of Iran to call for a worldwide manhunt of anyone involved in its publication.

So how did one man’s literary skill get another man literally killed?

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spooky-bitch merch needs. I feel like I'm on like, late night radio.

0:53.0

I know, you've got quite a sultry tone to your voice today.

0:56.0

It's because I have a sinus infection.

0:59.0

And we are on a very long flight tomorrow, so I will be in a lot of pain, I think.

1:03.0

But before that, before the glory of the painful flight begins,

1:08.0

we've got a case for you. We certainly do.

1:11.0

One that we have pondered doing for quite some time, and we've decided to just fucking

1:15.0

the police and get home in it. Exactly. No one can stop us unless they fat to our

1:20.0

us. I was going to say it unless we get cancelled cultured.

1:23.0

Yeah, right. I was talking to my sister about this case, and I was like, oh,

1:27.0

I've still got to clean up the script because, you know, as it is at the moment, we know.

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